The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood runs 12 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Gordon Griffin (about 8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 12 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 12 hours, it runs longer than 86% of the 8,856 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Gordon Griffin
Gordon Griffin narrates 202 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 2,210 hours in all.
About as long, on the Arts & Entertainment shelf
670 Arts & Entertainment audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood is an audiobook by Sid Waddell: a 12-hour unabridged recording, read by Gordon Griffin, released February 7, 2013, on the Arts & Entertainment and Sports shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 12 hrs
- Narrated by
- Gordon Griffin
- Released
- February 7, 2013
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Arts & Entertainment, Sports
- ISBN
- 9781448148882
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood as an audiobook?
The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood runs 12 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 8 hours.
Is The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood?
The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood is narrated by Gordon Griffin.
Is The Road Back Home: A Northern Childhood worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 8 hours, saving 4 hours.